dr. D.T.A. Matthews (Dave)

Born and bred in the UK, I came to the Netherlands in 2004 after attaining my BEng (Hons) in Materials Science and Engineering (University of Swansea) and MSc in Surface Design & Engineering (University of Nottingham). Following my PhD at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen under Prof. Jeff de Hosson (thesis title Surface Engineering: Amorphous alloys and nanocrystallinity), I worked for Tata Steel from 2008 as a Principal Researcher "Surface Technology", developing processes and products for a wide variety of market sectors such as automotive, packaging, energy and construction, generating several patents along the way.

Since 2017 I have held the position of Associate Professor "Surface Design & Engineering" and focus my research within the Laser Material Processing and Skin Tribology chairs of the Engineering Technology Faculty. By coupling materials science, topology and metrology we can tailor surface design for a variety of products and applications including bio-medical, automotive, smart materials and packaging. We achieve our research goals by developing and validating new coating and surface treatment processes, models and software for better prediction and control of surface functionality in a wide range of environmental conditions.

The research also feeds our education programme. I am coordinator of the Emerging Technology Design Master track of Industrial Design Engineering and also coordinate the Products and Surfaces Technology Programme within that Master track. I give lectures in both Bachelor and Master programmes within the Engineering Technology Faculty.

Since August 2020 I have also been privileged to hold the position of Distinguished Chair Professor at Feng Chia University in Taiwan. Together, we develop hybrid surfaces for a wide range of processes and products through, for example, the combination of designed surface topologies and novel coating processes.

In addition I am Managing Editor for two Q1 Elsevier journals: 1) Biomaterials Advances and 2) Surface & Coatings Technology.

Chemistry

# Wear

Physics & Astronomy

# Steels

Engineering & Materials Science

# Coatings
# Friction
# Hot Stamping
# Lasers
# Pulsed Lasers
# Wear Of Materials

Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET), Skin Tribology (ST)

Fernández-Martinez, I., Ganesan, R., Akhavan, B. , Matthews, D. T. A., Stueber, M., Bilek, M. M. M., & McKenzie, D. R. (2024). Room-temperature sputter deposition of gold-colored TiN assisted by niobium bombardment from a bipolar HiPIMS source. Journal of vacuum science & technology A: vacuum, surfaces, and films, 42(2), Article 023107. https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0003325

Sánchez, E. , de Vries, E. , Matthews, D. , van der Heide, E., & Janssen, D. (2024). The effect of coating characteristics on implant-bone interface mechanics. Journal of biomechanics, 163, Article 111949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2024.111949

Reuvekamp, H. , Hekman, E. E. G. , Heide, E. V. D. , & Matthews, D. T. A. (2024). Strategies in surface engineering for the regulation of microclimates in skin-medical product interactions. Heliyon, 10(4), Article e25395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25395

Baart, P., Bottema, J. , & Matthews, D. T. A. (2023). Metal substrate provided with tailored surface textures and method for applying such textures on metal substrates. (Patent No. US011752532B2).

de Vries, E. G. (2023). Friction of biomechanical interfaces. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036558242

de Vries, E. G., van Minnen, B. S. , Wu, Y. , Matthews, D. T. A. , & van der Heide, E. (2023). Tribological behaviour of a synthetic synovial fluid and polyurethane in biomedical implants. Biotribology, 33-34, Article 100242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotri.2023.100242

Reuvekamp, H. , Hekman, E. E. G. , Matthews, D. T. A. , & van der Heide, E. (2023). Regulating Microclimates in Biomedical Product Interfaces by Surface Engineering. Poster session presented at Dutch Biomedical Engineering conference, BME 2023, Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands.

Ganesan, R., Fernández-Martinez, I., Akhavan, B. , Matthews, D. T. A. , Sergachev, D., Stueber, M., McKenzie, D. R., & Bilek, M. M. M. (2023). Pulse length selection in bipolar HiPIMS for high deposition rate of smooth, hard amorphous carbon films. Surface and coatings technology, 454, Article 129199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2022.129199

Xie, D., Wang, X., Wei, L., Zhang, R., Ganesan, R. , Matthews, D. T. A., & Leng, Y. (2023). Atomic configuration, electronic structure, and work of adhesion of TiN(111)//B2-NiTi(110) and TiN(111)//B19′-NiTi(010) interfaces: Insights from first-principles simulations. Surface and interface analysis, 55(1), 41-51. https://doi.org/10.1002/sia.7158

Hsieh, P.-Y., Chen, Y.-H. , Matthews, D. T. A., He, J.-L., & Matthews, A. (2022). HiPIMS obtained carbon nano-coatings on copper foil and their thermal conductivity. Surface and coatings technology, 442, Article 128565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2022.128565

Fan, Y., Xie, D., Ma, D., Jing, F. , Matthews, D. T. A., Ganesan, R., & Leng, Y. (2022). Evaluation of the Crystal Structure and Mechanical Properties of Cu Doped TiN Films. Coatings, 12(5), Article 652. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings12050652

Venema, J. , Hazrati, J. , Zaman, S. B. , Matthews, D. T. A. , & Atzema, E. (2022). Temperature and strain dependent fracture of AlSi coating in hot stamping of press hardening steel. International journal of material forming, 15(3), Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12289-022-01685-5

Nie, X., Cai, R., Zhao, C., Sun, J., Zhang, J. , & Matthews, D. T. A. (2022). Advancement of plasma electrolytic oxidation towards non-valve metals. Surface and coatings technology, 442, Article 128403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2022.128403

Mustafa, H. , Matthews, D. T. A. , & Römer, G. R. B. E. (2022). Wavelength dependence of picosecond-pulsed laser ablation of hot-dip galvanized steel. Applied physics A: Materials science and processing, 128, Article 296. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-022-05393-4

Xie, D., Wei, L. J., Liu, H. Y., Zhang, K., Leng, Y. X. , Matthews, D. T. A., Ganesan, R., & Su, Y. Y. (2022). Deposition of titanium films on complex bowl-shaped workpieces using DCMS and HiPIMS. Surface and coatings technology, 442, Article 128192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2022.128192

de Vries, E., Sánchez, E., Janssen, D. , Matthews, D. , & van der Heide, E. (2022). Predicting friction at the bone–implant interface in cementless total knee arthroplasty. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials, 128, Article 105103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2022.105103

Venema, J. , Hazrati, J. , Atzema, E. , Matthews, D. , & van den Boogaard, T. (2022). Multiscale friction model for hot sheet metal forming. Friction, 10, 316-334. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-021-0504-6

Sergachev, D. , Matthews, D. , & Van Der Heide, E. (2022). Design of bidirectional frictional behaviour for tactile contact using ellipsoidal asperity micro-textures. Friction, 10(5), 762–771. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-021-0527-z

Akhavan, B., Ganesan, R. , Matthews, D. T. A., McKenzie, D., & Bilek, M. M. M. (2021). Noble gas control of diamond-like content and compressive stress in carbon films by arc-mixed mode high power impulse magnetron sputtering. Surface and coatings technology, 427, Article 127785. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2021.127785

Zaman, S. B. , Hazrati, J. , Rooij, M. D. , Matthews, D. , & Boogaard, T. V. D. (2021). Investigating AlSi coating fracture at high temperatures using acoustic emission sensors. Surface and coatings technology, 423, Article 127587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2021.127587

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